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Drug Overdose Deaths Drop For First Time Since 2018
18.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Drug Overdose Deaths Drop For First Time Since 2018 Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times, The rate of death by overdose declined in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years. Data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics show the decline mainly attributed to a drop in...
2 House Panels Clear Contempt Resolutions Against AG Garland
18.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 2 House Panels Clear Contempt Resolutions Against AG Garland Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Attorney General Merrick Garland appears at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on April 16, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Republicans on two House committees voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland...
CBO Report Obscures Negative Impact Of 'Bidenomics': House Budget Committee Chairman
18.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CBO Report Obscures Negative Impact Of 'Bidenomics': House Budget Committee Chairman Authored by Indrajit Basu via The Epoch Times, The chairman of the House Budget Committee has cast doubt on a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, which he says glosses over the failures of President Joe Biden’s economic policies. The White House has said...
Former Facebook And Nike DEI Manager Gets 5 Years For Embezzling $5 Million To Fund Luxury Lifestyle
17.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former Facebook And Nike DEI Manager Gets 5 Years For Embezzling $5 Million To Fund Luxury Lifestyle A former diversity program manager at Facebook and Nike has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing more than $5 million from Facebook and Nike while working as a DEI executive. Barbara Furlow-Smiles has been accused of " an elaborate...
Is Buffett's Cash Hoard A Market Warning?
17.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Buffett's Cash Hoard A Market Warning? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Every year, investors anxiously await the release of Warren Buffett’s annual letter to see what the “Oracle of Omaha” says about the markets, the economy, and where he is placing his money. “One of the longest-running traditions in modern finance...
Take-Two Shares Drop After Grand Theft Auto VI Delayed Again
17.05.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Take-Two Shares Drop After Grand Theft Auto VI Delayed Again Take-Two Interactive Software fell in premarket trading in New York after lowering its fiscal 2025 bookings forecast on Thursday evening and announcing a release date for Grand Theft Auto VI in the autumn of 2025. Some Wall Street desks viewed the release date as a "delay." Take-Two now...
Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week
17.05.2024, 12:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week US equity futures are flat to end a torrid week which saw all indexes hit a fresh all-time high while the terminally anachronistic Dow Jones briefly topped 40,000. Pre-market, MegaCap Tech are mixed: AMZN +20bp, MSFT +20bp, META -22bp, GOOGL -18bp. WMT is down 27bps pre-mkt, after its +7.0% rally post-earnings...
America's Nuclear Zeitenwende
17.05.2024, 00:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Nuclear Zeitenwende Authored by Charles Bell via RealClear Wire, Overshadowed by Hamas’s attack on Israel, the release of the congressionally mandated Strategic Posture Commission (SPC) report heralded the arrival of an American nuclear Zeitenwende – a sea change setting us on a new course. By issuing consensus recommendations for significant...
Peru Classifies Transgender Individuals As 'Mentally Ill'
16.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peru Classifies Transgender Individuals As 'Mentally Ill' The Peruvian government has officially categorized transgender and intersex people as "mentally ill," which the health ministry says is the only way that Peru's public health services could guarantee "guarantee full coverage of medical attention for mental health," The Telegraph reports. Conditions...
Google’s Smartphone Loyalty Problem
16.05.2024, 14:57 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to data from the Statista Consumer Insights survey, Google faces a smartphone loyalty problem. Current owners indicated that it is very likely they would switch to a different smartphone brand given the chance. This week saw the release of Google’s newest smartphone, the Pixel 8a. It is a less expensive model of the Pixel […] The...
Yields Tumble, Set For Bigger Plunge If CPI Comes In Cool
15.05.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields Tumble, Set For Bigger Plunge If CPI Comes In Cool Perhaps taking a cue from our CPI commentary last week in which we explained why today's inflation print will likely come in on the dovish side after beating estimates for 5 months in a row... ... moments ago 10Y yields plumbed fresh multi-week lows, sliding to just above 4.40% (from a high of...
Why 1960 Alternate Electors Succeeded Where 2020 Ones Failed
15.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why 1960 Alternate Electors Succeeded Where 2020 Ones Failed Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A November election decades ago produced a clear winner in a hotly contested presidential race. Yet the popular vote immediately came under scrutiny in several states. In one, auditors discovered clear errors in tabulating vote...
Target To Limit LGBT Pride Products To Online And 'Select Stores' After Last Summer's Controversy
15.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Target To Limit LGBT Pride Products To Online And 'Select Stores' After Last Summer's Controversy Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Target has announced that its LGBT-themed merchandise will only be sold online and at select stores this June, a decision made after last year’s Pride Month marketing campaign divided customers...
RFK Jr. And AV24 Super PAC Sue Meta, Alleging Election Interference
15.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr. And AV24 Super PAC Sue Meta, Alleging Election Interference Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and the super PAC backing him have filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc., for election interference after it allegedly shadow banned the documentary “Who is Bobby...
1 In 8 US Adults Have Tried GLP-1 Obesity Medications, Poll Finds
15.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 1 In 8 US Adults Have Tried GLP-1 Obesity Medications, Poll Finds Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours) One in eight American adults have used popular weight loss and diabetes drugs known as GLP-1 agonists, according to the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll. (Photos from Shutterstock / Designed by The Epoch Times) The survey, which...
WTI Rebounds Off Tw0Month Lows After API Reports Crude Draw
14.05.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rebounds Off Tw0Month Lows After API Reports Crude Draw Oil prices decline today as the last few day's rollercoaster continued after a hotter than expected PPI print, leaving WTI near nine-week lows. Crude has been on a downward path since April, with the geopolitical risk premium from tensions in the Middle East largely evaporating. Refinery run...
Wanted: The Most In-Demand Jobs Of The Next Decade
14.05.2024, 12:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wanted: The Most In-Demand Jobs Of The Next Decade Ever since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022 and other AI tools that have followed in its wake, people have been pondering the potential of artificial intelligence to replace certain occupations, trying to figure out if and how the nascent technology will change the way people work. And while the...
"Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech
14.05.2024, 12:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech US equity futures are flat into tomorrow's CPI/Retail Sales print with PPI the major macro data point today, while Fed Chair Powell also speaks. Futures are flat after also closing unchanged yesterday when the return of the meme stonk mania sent GME and AMC soaring, and hammered L/S hedge funds...
WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote
14.05.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The World Health Organization (WHO) has watered down some provisions of its pandemic agreements ahead of the upcoming World Health Assembly on May 27. Critics in the United States, however, say the changes don’t do enough to address...
"Sand Volcano" Emerges In Central Florida
14.05.2024, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Sand Volcano" Emerges In Central Florida Devo Seereeram, a Consulting Geotechnical Engineer and the owner of Devo Engineering has deemed the anomaly that has emerged in Central Florida to be a "sand volcano". The issue surfaced at a 300-million-gallon wastewater reservoir located west of State Road 429 in Apopka, near Golden Gem Road. This facility...
Even If Powell "Can't See The Stag And Can't See The Flation", Consumers Can
13.05.2024, 17:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Even If Powell "Can't See The Stag And Can't See The Flation", Consumers Can By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Bumps and Potholes UK Q1 GDP surprised to the upside at the end of last week to print at +0.6%, rather than the more modest 0.4% that market economists had been expecting. That means that Britain is officially out of recession...
Key Events This Week: All Eyes On CPI As Fed Speakers Galore
13.05.2024, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: All Eyes On CPI As Fed Speakers Galore After a very slow week, the key event for markets this week will be US inflation data with April’s PPI (Tuesday) and CPI (Wednesday) the highlights. We’ll see if the higher-than-expected US inflation seen in Q1 extends into Q2 or not. Markets will also hear from Powell (tomorrow) and Vice...
Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms
13.05.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms US equity futures extended last week's solid gains when they traded just about 1% below all time highs, as investors awaited key CPI later this week that will shape the Fed's actions in coming months. As of 7:30am, contracts on the S&P 500 rose about 0.2% (but still below Friday's highs)...
Dietary Choices Have 'Profound' Impact On Brain Health: Study
13.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dietary Choices Have 'Profound' Impact On Brain Health: Study Authored by Mary West via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A study from the UK published in Nature Mental Health (NMH) on April 1, found that a healthy, balanced diet links to superior cognitive function, mental well-being, and brain health. It even increases gray matter, an effect associated...
Coffee Is Anti-Aging, Linked To Prevention Of Dementia And Sarcopenia: Study
13.05.2024, 03:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Coffee Is Anti-Aging, Linked To Prevention Of Dementia And Sarcopenia: Study Authored by Ellen Wan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Enjoying a cup of joe can offer more than just a pick-me-up: It has been shown to have numerous health benefits, especially for older people. Research has found that the natural molecule in coffee, trigonelline, can...
Suspect In Bronx 'Rope And Rape' Arrested
11.05.2024, 23:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Suspect In Bronx 'Rope And Rape' Arrested A man who was caught on camera in a horrific rape in the Bronx has been arrested. Kassan Parks, 39, was arrested Saturday and charged with walking up behind a 45-year-old victim at 3 a.m. May 1, lassoing her with a bent from behind, dragging her unconscious body between two cars, and raping her, the NY Post...
Over 124 Pounds Of Cocaine And Fentanyl Seized In El Paso In 1 Week
11.05.2024, 19:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Over 124 Pounds Of Cocaine And Fentanyl Seized In El Paso In 1 Week Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in the El Paso region seized more than 124 pounds of fentanyl and cocaine last week in four separate incidents, amid criticism of lax border policies. On April 30,...
Long-Awaited State Dept Review 'Absolves' Israel Of War Crimes
11.05.2024, 13:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Long-Awaited State Dept Review 'Absolves' Israel Of War Crimes Via The Cradle A US State Department report on Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip will be submitted to Congress on Friday and stop short of concluding Tel Aviv has "violated terms for the use of US weapons," according to US officials who spoke with Axios. The report, based on a months-long...
The Escalating Threat Of Avian Influenza H5N1 And The Ethical Quandary Of Gain-of-Function Research
11.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Escalating Threat Of Avian Influenza H5N1 And The Ethical Quandary Of Gain-of-Function Research Since the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus was first identified in humans in 2003, approximately 600 cases have been reported worldwide, with a laboratory-confirmed case-fatality rate (CFR) of 60%. The recent death of a woman in southwest...
Carnival Rides
10.05.2024, 22:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Carnival Rides Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “These agencies are not trusted because they are not trustworthy.” — El Gato Malo on “X” The miasma of anxiety befogging so many brains in our troubled land begins to lift as every narrative served up by the US fascist intel blob goes annoyingly stale and impotent. The worst...
Stocks End Week On Muted Note As Stagflation Fears Mount
10.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks End Week On Muted Note As Stagflation Fears Mount Late Friday afternoon, US main equity indexes showed little change, with the S&P 500 on track for a 2% weekly gain after investors digested new concerns about a slowing economy and elevated inflation, rekindling fears of stagflation. During the session, Treasury yields increased due to...
"Worst Case Scenario": MacroGenics Crashes After Five Patient Deaths In Experimental Drug Trial
10.05.2024, 18:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Worst Case Scenario": MacroGenics Crashes After Five Patient Deaths In Experimental Drug Trial A Rockville, Maryland-based biotech company called MacroGenics crashed in premarket trading in New York after it revealed five deaths in a clinical trial of its investigative therapy for prostate cancer, according to Bloomberg. MacroGenics finished...
Senate Bill Seeks To Place Campus Protesters On No-Fly List
10.05.2024, 17:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate Bill Seeks To Place Campus Protesters On No-Fly List Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, A bill introduced in the Senate by two Republicans seeks to place campus protesters on a no-fly list. Across the country, pro-Palestinian students are gathering on campuses and demanding their universities cut ties with the Israeli government...
Investors Brace For Biden's Imminent Tariffs On China EVs
10.05.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Investors Brace For Biden's Imminent Tariffs On China EVs The Biden administration is expected to make a major announcement on China tariffs as soon as next week that will impact semiconductors, solar power, and electric vehicles, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. While the possibility of additional tariffs...
Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?
10.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back? By Simon Watkins of OilPrice.com Since the mid-1990s, China’s extraordinary economic expansion almost singlehandedly drove a supercycle in key commodities prices it required to power such growth, including oil and gas. In 2013, it became the world’s largest net importer of total petroleum and other...
TikTok To Automatically label AI-Generated Content
09.05.2024, 23:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - TikTok To Automatically label AI-Generated Content Authored by Savannah Fortis via CoinTelegraph.com, TikTok, the popular social media platform for creating and sharing short-form videos, said it will now start automatically labeling artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content (AIGC) when it is uploaded to the platform. On May 9, the social media...
Biden's Handling Of Israel War Has "Tremendously Increased The Risk Of A Fresh Eruption"
09.05.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Handling Of Israel War Has "Tremendously Increased The Risk Of A Fresh Eruption" By Michael Every of Rabobank Yesterday saw the Riksbank in Sweden cut rates by 25bp to 3.75% for the first time since 2016 (as Brazil cut 25bp to 10.50% as expected, yet the BoJ opened the door to another tiny June hike). Rate cuts, and a month before the ECB is...
Creditors Of Bankrupt FTX To Receive As Much As 142% Of What They Are Owed
08.05.2024, 21:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Creditors Of Bankrupt FTX To Receive As Much As 142% Of What They Are Owed Back in March, when eyeing the tremendous rebound in the crypto space, we joked that creditors in Sam Bankman-Fried's bankrupt exchange, FTX, would recover 200% of their claims. FTX bankruptcy will be the first Chapter 11 where creditors recover 200% of their claims — zerohedge...
Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Company Wins Shareholder Approval For NYSE Listing
08.05.2024, 17:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Company Wins Shareholder Approval For NYSE Listing Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI and the man who's name has basically become synonymous with AI, has won investor approval for his latest project, nuclear company Oklo, which is set to list on the NYSE Friday via a SPAC . The company, which trades as ALCC until then will debut under...
US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise
08.05.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise US equity futures flipped between gains and losses on Wednesday while European stocks hit an all time high as May’s rally in equities continued amid a clutch of solid earnings reports. As of 7:45am, S&P 500 futures traded down 0.2%, and was near session lows reversing...
China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024
08.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024 Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A policeman covers a camera to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is set for trial in Shanghai on Dec. 28...
Trojan Tomato: A New GMO Is Designed To Infiltrate America's Gardens
08.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trojan Tomato: A New GMO Is Designed To Infiltrate America's Gardens Authored by Sina McCullough via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As spring gardening approaches, a new contender has entered the fray—the genetically modified (GM) Purple Tomato. Unlike its GM predecessors, the GM Purple Tomato is not destined solely for the fields of commercial...
Israeli Ground Forces Enter Rafah, Tank Unit Shuts Down Vital Border Crossing
07.05.2024, 16:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Ground Forces Enter Rafah, Tank Unit Shuts Down Vital Border Crossing Overnight it's been confirmed that Israeli ground forces have begun moving into Rafah, with IDF tanks having seized Gaza's vital Rafah border crossing in the last hours. The IDF plans to monitor all aid going into the Gaza Strip, but international aid organizations warn this...
Confidence Boost For The Fed
06.05.2024, 19:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Confidence Boost For The Fed By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Last Wednesday, Powell said that there had been a lack of further progress toward the Fed’s 2% inflation objective. Indeed, both the latest CPI and PCE prints had already dashed hopes that the Fed would cut rates by summer. It would, therefore, take more time for the...
A Disbarred, Serial Perjurer Walks Into A Court And Asks To Take An Oath...Seriously, No Joke
06.05.2024, 18:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Disbarred, Serial Perjurer Walks Into A Court And Asks To Take An Oath...Seriously, No Joke Authored by Jonathan Turley, A disbarred, serial perjurer walks into a courtroom and asks to take an oath . . . No, seriously, this is not a joke. Michael Cohen will soon appear in a Manhattan courtroom in what is sure to be one of the most bizarre moments...
Key Events This Week: Things Finally Quiet Down
06.05.2024, 16:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Things Finally Quiet Down After a whirlwind two weeks which saw both the latest FOMC decision and the April jobs report, not to mention the peak of earnings season when all of the top tech companies reported, the calendar takes a quieter turn after the deluge of macro events last week, and the focus shifts on whether markets can...
'Romance' Scammer Promised Fake Gold To Bilk Victims For Millions
06.05.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Romance' Scammer Promised Fake Gold To Bilk Victims For Millions Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, It was an old-fashioned romance scam, involving a man posing as a female online to induce unfortunate men to send him their life savings. This scam, however, was fairly complex, involving a fake bank website and non-existent gold bars. The alleged...
Futures, Global Markets Rise On Rising Fed Cut Bets
06.05.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures, Global Markets Rise On Rising Fed Cut Bets Global stocks and US equity futures jumped to start the new week, with the S&P 500 poised to extend last week’s rally as traders grew increasingly confident in the likelihood that the Fed will cut interest rates this year. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.3%, tracking gains in...
Biden Administration Finalizes Rule To Allow 'Dreamers' To Enroll In 'Obamacare'
06.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Administration Finalizes Rule To Allow 'Dreamers' To Enroll In 'Obamacare' Authored by Jana J. Pruet via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Biden administration announced on Friday that it had finalized a directive to expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare,” to thousands of immigrants who were brought to the United...
Maryland Officials Release Timeline And Cost Estimate For Rebuilding Baltimore Bridge
06.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Maryland Officials Release Timeline And Cost Estimate For Rebuilding Baltimore Bridge In the wake of a catastrophe that claimed the lives of six roadwork crew members and disrupted one of the nation’s busiest ports, Maryland has committed to a monumental task of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The project, set to be completed by the fall...